National Defence College Commandant Visit Swift Sword/3 Main Command

Muscat, The National Defence College (NDC) Commandant visited Swift Sword/3 Main Command. The visit included the Exercise Control, the Joint Command and the Media Center.

Lt.Gen Ahmed bin Harith bin Nasser al- Nahbani, Chief of Staff of the Sultan’s Armed Forces ( Exercise Director) welcomed Maj.Gen Salim bin Musallam Qatan, Commandant of the National Defence College, the Steering Board and the participants in the 6th National Defence Course. They were briefed on the exercise, the sectors taking part, in the planning stages, the duties of the cells, the implementation plans and the joint military work with the British Royal Armed Forces.

NDC Commandant and the Steering Board visited the Joint Command and were briefed by Brigadier Hamad bin Rashid al- Balushi, Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations and Planning (Senior Staff Officer at the Joint Command) on the roles and responsibilities of the joint command cells.

The Commandant of the NDC, the Steering Board also visited the Media Center and reviewed its departments, as well as the role they play to document the exercise events. They were also briefed on how to activate the media plans through the different audio, visual, print and e-media means. They also familiarized themselves with some of the media works done over the exercise period.